Marty Jopsons Analysis

To start off this documentary, four volunteers that were concerned about their sugar intake and were living in Britain met up with the narrator. To begin, a display of food that the person had eaten in the last week was shown. After they went over when, where and why they might eat this, a platter containing their sugar intake was revealed. The numbers ranged from four to seven times the recommended 6 teaspoons! Because this is a very unhealthy amount to be consuming, the volunteers were challenged to eat no more than the recommended 6 teaspoons a day, basically cutting out theall sweets other than fruit.

Next, to help us figure out what is used and how this sugar is made, Dr. Marty Jopson was invited to demonstrate the process of how sugar is extracted from cane stalks. The first step shown is breaking down the

This time she wants to learn how it affects your appetite. To do this she and Dr. Jason Gill from the University of Glasgow study this on two teams of netball players. During the halftime of their game Dr. Jason gives the red team a red currant juice full of sugar and the blue team the same drink but without sugar. After the game finishes the two teams are offered two separated buffets filled with sandwiches and sweets and tell both teams to eat as much as wanted. Once the teams go outside, the narrator and Dr. Jason Gill count up the calories consumed. As it turns out, the red team, or the team with the sugary drink ended up consuming over 1000 calories more than the blue team. This happens because the sugary drinks are full of empty calories that don’t satisfy your hunger vs the non sweet drink that when drunken, your body can process that there were calories consumed. This causes the person consuming the sugary drink to feel unsatisfied and hungry even after consuming those